Delay-Induced Containment Control of Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems With Intermittent Sampled Position Data

In this paper, the intermittent containment control problem of second-order multi-agent systems with sampled position data is investigated. Under the case that the velocity measurements are inaccurate or unavailable, a novel intermittent containment control protocol is designed based on both the current and delayed sampled position datum. A necessary and sufficient condition depending upon the coupling strengths, the spectrum of the Laplacian matrix, the communication width, the sampling period and the time delay, is derived for achieving second-order intermittent containment control. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of theoretical results.